Jack and I have been swimming every week for a long time. He has been afraid to put his face underwater and generally seemed to be making the slowest of progress learning to swim. But today, all that changed. After about 45 minutes of our usual play, he began to practice holding his breathe and then blowing bubbles. Then he announced he was going to put his face in the water. Next it was most of his head. And then he started going under water all the way and floating under water with his feet off the bottom of the pool! He did it again and again and again until I lost count. Finally, I timed how long he was staying under and it was 15 seconds! All this is without me touching him; he did it all on his own. I stayed close in case he wanted to grab me.
We were both excited and very proud. This is a real accomplishment. I'm especially pleased that he did it without any request for or promise of any kind of reward. Accomplishment is its own reward. Please congratulate our little swimmer.
Stacy is going to take Jack for a swimming lesson this weekend I think. Please ask the teacher what we should be working on next.
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